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author | Wolfgang Müller | 2019-07-20 21:58:18 +0200 |
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committer | Wolfgang Müller | 2019-07-20 21:58:18 +0200 |
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diff --git a/weltschmerz.1 b/weltschmerz.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c66bbad --- /dev/null +++ b/weltschmerz.1 @@ -0,0 +1,203 @@ +.Dd January 17, 2019 +.Dt WELTSCHMERZ 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm weltschmerz +.Nd a small VTE-based terminal emulator +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Oo +.Ar command +.Op Ar argument... +.Oc +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +is a terminal emulator using the VTE widget. +It supports clickable URLs, contains basic search functionality, and can +reload its configuration whilst running. +.Pp +.Nm +executes the given command, or the program specified in the +.Em SHELL +environment variable if no command was given. +.Pp +The clipboard can be copied to and pasted from with +.Sy CTRL + Shift + C +and +.Sy CTRL + Shift + V , +respectively. +.Sh SEARCH OVERLAY +The search overlay can be opened by pressing +.Sy CTRL + Shift + F . +The search will be updated automatically as the user types in the search bar. +.Pp +The key bindings for the overlay are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Sy Enter , CTRL + G +Go to next search result. +.It Sy Shift + Enter , CTRL + Shift + G +Go to previous search result. +.It Sy Escape +Close search overlay. +.El +.Sh CONFIGURATION +Configuration is done using a configuration file. +.Nm +will reread that file when receiving the hangup signal (SIGHUP), or +when the user presses +.Sy CTRL + Shift + R . +.Pp +.Nm +uses GLib's key-value file parser. +The file format consists of key-value pairs collected in groups: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +[misc] +font = Iosevka Light 16 + +[colours] +foreground = #000000 +background = #ffffff +.Ed +.Pp +Refer to the GLib documentation for detailed information on this format. +.Pp +The options for the +.Em misc +group are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Sy autohide-mouse +When set to +.Sy true , +the mouse cursor will be hidden once the user presses a key, and shown +once the user moves the mouse. +When set to +.Sy false , +the mouse cursor will always be shown. +The default is +.Sy false . +.It Sy cursor-shape +Specifies the shape of the terminal cursor. +Possible values are +.Sy beam , +.Sy block , +and +.Sy underline . +The default is +.Sy block . +.It Sy font +Specifies the font used to draw text, in the form of a Pango font +description. +Consists of one or more font families, zero or more style options, and +the size in points (or in pixels if given a suffix of +.Dq px ) : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +Monospace 12 +Iosevka, DejaVu Sans Mono bold italic 16 +Gohu GohuFont 11px +.Ed +.Pp +Refer to the Pango documentation for detailed information. +.Pp +The default is +.Sy Monospace 12 . +.It Sy scrollback +Specifies how many lines of scrollback to keep. +A value of -1 means infinite scrollback. +The default is +.Sy 10000 . +.It Sy scrollbar +When set to +.Sy true , +.Nm +will draw a scrollbar at the right side of the terminal window. +When set to +.Sy false , +no scrollbar is drawn. +The default is +.Sy true . +.El +.Pp +The +.Em colours +group contains the palette and colour overrides. +All keys in this group take a colour representation as their value: +.Bd -filled -offset indent +.TS +tab(/); +l |l +lb |l. +Representation/Example value += +Hexadecimal/#00ffff +RGB/rgb(0, 255, 255) +RGBA/rgba(0, 255, 255, 1) +X11 colour/cyan +.TE +.Ed +.Pp +The palette defines the 16 base colours available to the terminal. +Keys for the palette are in the form of: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +<colour type>.<colour name> +.Ed +.Pp +The colour type is either +.Dq normal +or +.Dq bright , +and the possible colour names along with their default representations +are as follows: +.Bd -filled -offset indent +.TS +tab(/); +l |l |l +lb |l |l. +Colour name/Default (normal)/Default (bright) += +black/black/grey50 +red/red3/red +green/green3/green +yellow/yellow3/yellow +blue/blue2/#5c5cff +magenta/magenta3/magenta +cyan/cyan3/cyan +white/grey90/white +.TE +.Ed +.Pp +The colour overrides specify which colour to use for certain parts of +the terminal. +The following table contains all possible keys for the colour overrides, +along with the default behaviour if the override is not set: +.Bd -filled -offset indent +.TS +tab(/); +l |l +lb |il. +Key/Default += +foreground/normal.white +background/normal.black +cursor.foreground/reverse video +cursor.background/reverse video +selection.foreground/reverse video +selection.background/reverse video +bold/inherit colour +.TE +.Ed +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Em $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/weltschmerz/config +The configuration file for +.Nm . +.El +.Pp +.Nm +adheres to the XDG Base Directory Specification. +If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset or empty, it will default to +.Em ~/.config +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +.Nm +was written by +.An Wolfgang Müller Aq Mt vehk@vehk.de |